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HawkMan 5,077

Probably not. most likely you're seeing a shift from large expensive windows licenses to more frequent cheaper windows upgrade licenses, ala Apple (remember every Apple OS sold is an upgrade). which is also marked by the move away from boxed versions and only OEM versions and upgrades for sale.

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pack34 224

Probably not. most likely you're seeing a shift from large expensive windows licenses to more frequent cheaper windows upgrade licenses, ala Apple (remember every Apple OS sold is an upgrade). which is also marked by the move away from boxed versions and only OEM versions and upgrades for sale.

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pack34 224

When I mean is, Apple treats every OSX update as the next version of OSX while Blue is supposed to be more of a feature update like a cell phone or Tablet and not the next version of the OS. I would suspect that these annual/biannual updates will be free but the big version number releases every two-three years will be paid. That's at least how I suspect they will treat it. I don't think it would sit well with users to have to pay for a software update for their tablet and since Microsoft is treating it as "One OS to rule them all" I see the smart device update scheme to bleed over to Windows.

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Robbie Ride 23

I think Windows Blue will be a free add-on/update to Windows 8, but at the same time I hope it fixes the short comings at the same time. If Microsoft were to add more features to the Metro sorry Modern UI apps it would be more of a joy to use, at the minute it seems like a lot of the features were left out the same way they were left out of Windows Phone 8.

It is funny how Apple calls nearly every OS X release as Major Revision, when it's the same original revision that was released in 2001, of course newer technologies have been incorporated, but anything else its just fixes to the backend, a change over to WinTel processors and a new name. Its almost like Apple are too scared to create anything new. So maybe in 2014/2015 when the current build revision numbers run out we may get to see OS X 11 and something new and different.

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Xerxes 180

It will cost money I think, Windows Blue (from what I can gather) is the future of Windows. Instead of releasing new version every 3 years of so, they'll release more frequent (but paid for) updates like this, ala OSX. I could be totally wrong but that is gist I got from it.